Does anyone know if there have been any efforts or plans to create a C++ version of gson? The library is very helpful and one the easiest to use and it would be great if there was something similar for C++/
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Does anyone know if there have been any efforts or plans to create a C++ version of gson? The library is very helpful and one the easiest to use and it would be great if there was something similar for C++/
You mean the google project to convert json into java objects and back?
There are c++ json libraries but from what I understand, the advantage of gson is the ability to automatically serialize objects.
The problem that makes this difficult, and impossible to do as well as in other languages is that C++ doesn’t support reflection, and has basically zero run-time type info. This makes something like gson about impossible to do in a similar manner.
Take this with a grain of salt because while I do have a whole lot of C++ experience. I’ve never actually used gson, and thus don’t really know what it is you desire.